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AMA | October 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Bayesian Reasoning - Is There a Choice?

Bayesian reasoning is just a tool that you use when you're dealing in situations of uncertainty. There's no, again, there's really no choice about it. If you collect enough data, good Bayesians will always converge on the same answers. Is there value in considering physical quantities other than momentum in the same light? Well, maybe. But physicists very often will take something they think is a constant and say, well, what if it's a variable?

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